It’s hard to believe this year is winding down. Our facility has been in a state of destruction and construction all year, but I finally feel like I can exhale! This month, they have been working on the street in front of my office, and finishing up on Girvin Hall.[Read More…]

Starting this week, the Malheur Enterprise will be voicing its opinion about selected measures and candidates for office. I’d like to explain our process. Our endorsements are meant to just add another voice to the public debate on these matters. We have no illusion that anyone will use our endorsements as[Read More…]

The rush of news until now has kept me from an important duty – introducing you to some new faces around the Malheur Enterprise. Many of you have encountered these reporters in recent weeks. They have thrown themselves into their duty with relish. Let me tell you something about them.[Read More…]

The Facebook post from Congressman Greg Walden caught my attention because he was in the neighborhood. “Thanks to the farmers, ranchers and community leaders who joined me for a conversation on trade, the farm bill and other issues impacting those who grow our food,” the Hood River Congressman said, posting[Read More…]

 Caroline Bruton sings during the auditions last week. She and three others – Fred Child, Katie Friend and Teri Miller – were selected to sing the anthem at events next week in Vale. VALE – The duty seemed too important to turn down when Holly Stepleton called not long ago.[Read More…]

“Eighty-two degrees with a 12 percent chance of rain and 4 mph wind” read the weather forecast. “Better count on a cold, rainy, windy weekend,” I told my husband. He double-checked the statistics. “It looks like it’ll be nice.” “Well, I say it’s going to rain—might even have a thunderstorm.”[Read More…]

The childhood account kept rattling around in my head. An Ontario woman recounted how, as a young girl, she was removed from her parents by the state and put into foster care. She described being told to go to her bedroom to gather her things. Then, she was told she[Read More…]

It’s only three months until Fair! Does that statement make anyone else nervous?  I think our contractor Tim Davis of Rywest Holmes, Fruitland, and our architect Gene Ulmer would agree with me that there is a lot to do before we’re ready to host a County Fair. I have been[Read More…]

Ma Anand Sheela exhorts sannyasins at Rancho Rajneesh outside Madras in the 1980s. (Photo courtesy The Oregonian/OregonLive) Spinning through the documentary “Wild Wild Country” was like watching old home movies. The six-part Netflix series tracks the history of the Rajneeshees and their leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The guru left his[Read More…]

New buildings will be ready for this year’s entries showing animals at the fair. (Enterprise file photo) Last month I made the statement: “I believe 1977 was the last new building here at the fairgrounds.” Of course I was wrong and of course I was corrected – immediately!  I owe[Read More…]